Learning Log 5

After reading the notes, oh boy am i confused at first! But i managed to grasp the pointers for unseen poem and unseen essay~ :)

The point for unseen poem is to read the poem at least twice through and understand the poem. If we do, it would be easier for us to answer questions on it. We must first pick out the difficult words or phrases, and come up with the meaning of it. The reading and understand of the poem would be smoother if we knew the meaning to the different words. Underlining keywords and also could try to summarise each paragraph and write it by the side, or make short notes on it, it would come in handy! We must not answer the question in general terms and without explanation, that would cost us to lost alot of marks~ One way to organise answer when answering to the poem is using the PEEL method which consist of Point, Elaboration, Evidence and Link~ :)

For unseen essay, we have to analyies the passage. When reading it for the first time, we have to have an idea of what the passage is about. Read it of the second time, take note of mood and setting etc, for a better understanding of the passage. Next, read the question stated and underline from the passage where the answers and evidence can be found. For good essay, remember that there must always have the introduction, the body which consist of the point, evidence, elaboration and personal response and lastly, the conclusion when answering the questions on the essay. Same as the unseen poem, there should be no general answers and answers must be supported by evidence and elaboration~ :)

Also, i learnt that there are two types of irony. One is the situational irony and the other one is verbal irony, which is sarcasm. Sarcasm is to 'create humor', 'add the sense of tragedy', and lasty 'to critize'~ :)

This is something that i have learn through reading the set of notes~ Hopefully i can do well for this opponent! Wish me luck~ :)
Racheal~ :)